Employed by: Hiroshima Shudo University, Faculty of Humanities and Human Sciences, Japan

Position held: Professor of Philosophy of Education

Education

- 2000: Awarded the degree of Dr. in pedagogy

- 1989–1994: Graduate School of Education, Tsukuba University

- 1988: Awarded the degree of MSc. in pedagogy

- 1986–1989: Graduate School of Education, Osaka Kyoiku University

- 1982–1986:　Faculty of Economics, Takasaki City University of Economics

Professional career

- 2012–2014: Vice-President, Hiroshima Shudo University

- 2010–2011: Chief of President's Office, Hiroshima Shudo University

- 2001: Professor of Philosophy of Education, Hiroshima Shudo University

- 1998–1999: Visiting Fellow, Institute of Education, Warwick University, U.K.

- 1995–2001: Assistant professor of Philosophy of Education, Hiroshima Shudo University

- 1994–1995: Lecturer of Philosophy of Education, Hiroshima Shudo University

Main research interest

- Educational thought in Seventeenth-century Europe

- Jan Amos Komenský

Organizational activities

- since 2011: Co-editor of Philosophical Study on Education (Tokyo)

- since 2010: Foreign co-editor of German Comenius Society

- since 2009: Trustee of the History of Educational Thought Society (Tokyo)

- 2006–2012: Co-editor of Forum on Modern Education (Tokyo)

Bibliography of main scholarly works

- Kyouiku Sisou to Dekaruto Tetsugaku. = Educational Thoughts and Descartes' Philosophy. Kyoto, 2001, p. 351.

- Jan Amos Komenský: Labyrint světa a ráj srdce. Tokyo, 2006, p. 267.

- Kyouikuteki Shikou no Toreeningu. = Trainings for Educational Way of Thinking. Tokyo, 2008, p. 286.

- The Acceptance of Modern Education in Japan and J. A. Comenius. In The Legacy of J. A.
Comenius to the Culture of Education. Prague: Academia, 2009, p. 443–449.

- Mutual Edification and Consultatio Catholica: The Public Sphere according to Komenský
and his Colleagues. Studia Comeniana et Historica, 42 (2012), 87/88, p.13–26.